For example when making blackberry wine, those blackberries don’t have the optimum levels of acid or sugar so will need helping out. We know what blackberries taste like so we know they are going to make an incredible wine but we need to add sugar, water and a little acid (such as c...
Drain the raisins, reserving the liquid. Discard the vanilla bean. Put the liquid back in the saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce to about 1/3 cup, or until the syrup turns a deep golden color, 10 to 15 minutes. Watch carefully so the syrup doesn’t burn. If it starts to foam, ...
The questions ranged from silly (“if you could stay up all night, what would you do?) to personal (“what is something you like about yourself?”) and from simple (“what is your favorite book?”) to complicated (“describe your dream home”). The best part is that, as the boys ...
My own jam making is still future tense, but one of the things I always loved about summers growing up was picking buckets and buckets of plums and blackberries from our yard. The plums were typically made into syrup, but the blackberries (that survived the picking) became jam. My job was...